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Breaking WSJ: The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 13 hours ago • 515 comments

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

submitted 1 day ago • 315 comments

Incredible paragraph. "He blamed schools." Not the rampant criminality and lawlessness among his political party, much of which he personally enabled, all of which he has remained silent about and has refused to take any action to stop. No, that's not the problem to Roberts. "He blamed schools."

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

THIS is the most devastating constitutional crisis.

submitted 4 days ago • 286 comments

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

submitted 5 days ago • 530 comments

The Earth doesn’t “go around the Sun” the Earth goes in a straight line through an area of spacetime that bends around the Sun and I think that’s neat.

submitted 4 days ago • 287 comments

The regime is arresting judges and mayors, snatching people off the street, threatening to suspend habeas corpus. Is it getting worse quickly, as they escalate their assault? Or are they lashing out in frustration, as they keep losing in the courts and struggling to consolidate? The answer is: Yes.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

I'm still not clear why the @nytimes.com went along the idea that a presidential library owning a jet for the personal use of the ex-president was anything that real presidential libraries do. Weird.

submitted 4 days ago • 351 comments

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

submitted 4 days ago • 416 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

submitted 4 days ago • 2746 comments

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 4 days ago • 950 comments

in exchange for losing toys now, you’ll get to toil for low wages in a widget factory. also, the state will effectively own your body!

submitted 9 days ago • 266 comments

It’s still hard for me to process that we voted last November to chomp down on the cyanide capsule

submitted 9 days ago • 991 comments

When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.

submitted 11 days ago • 153 comments

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

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submitted 14 days ago • 126 comments

The cops are defunding every major city.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

“Jaw-dropping” corruption: HBO movie director says Ohio is “rigged against the popular will” Ohio's HB6 scandal was chosen for documentary because it was "so bold" in revealing how special interests and dark money have corrupted state's political system www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Scoop: I'm told that The Washington Post shelled out more than $1 million for its fancy post-WHCD Sunday brunch at the exclusive Ned's Club—all while the Will Lewis-led newspaper tightens the belt internally. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/431TuQ1

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

submitted 17 days ago • 545 comments

"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 394 comments

Days after a delegation of House Republicans were in that slave labor camp for a photo op.

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

“There isn't a single part of the entire thing that stands up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. The whole thing, the entire enterprise is just sheer lawlessness,” says Chris Hayes.

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 34 days ago • 2330 comments

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

submitted 36 days ago • 1228 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 36 days ago • 3180 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

submitted 38 days ago • 1245 comments

Fired Justice Department employee reveals that Trump officials tried to send armed officers to her home to intimidate her and her family: “I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power.”

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments

We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus. by Bill Ackman

submitted 39 days ago • 59 comments

1. We contacted the 100 largest American companies and asked a simple question: Do you support the tariffs announced by President Trump on April 2? These are tariffs that have already destroyed trillions of shareholder value NOT ONE COMPANY WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTION

submitted 39 days ago • 167 comments

This is funny. And the serious problem with the NYT is it misinforms about reality. Not with inaccuracy so much as emphasis, perspective, and framing. That makes it a bad news source. Go to the Guardian, or Wired, or others/ independent sources. You don't need the NYT or LA Times, or WaPo.

submitted 39 days ago • 85 comments

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

submitted 40 days ago • 471 comments

From a source connected to CDC: “The day of the massacre staff in the [director’s office] spent most of the day getting the staff who feed the animals in the labs reinstated. They had all been fired.” www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

submitted 41 days ago • 209 comments

"The Republican controlled House of Representatives in an effort to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression passed the Smoot-Hawley Act which raised tariffs... It did not work and the US sank deeper into the Great Depression."

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

Islands that have no humans and many penguins and are the size of Philadelphia and aren't even a country have been hit with a reciprocal country tariff and what is happening www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

I can’t compete with this

submitted 43 days ago • 838 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 50 days ago • 2080 comments

All you need to know about Twitter

submitted 53 days ago • 3172 comments

I will 100% vote NO on House Republicans’ partisan slush funds bill that turns the government into a piggy bank for billionaires.

submitted 63 days ago • 384 comments

Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts. And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think www.1011now.com/2025/03/05/t...

submitted 67 days ago • 3065 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 67 days ago • 456 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 72 days ago • 3290 comments

One day, if we ever get out of this, it’s going to seem very conspicuous that in the years after Dobbs the media and elites were preoccupied with pronatalism, male loneliness, and prolonged digressions about feminists’ various evils and personal failures.

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments